Laura Ruetz
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“The solution to all my problems remained the same: I just needed to keep moving.”
― No One Tells You This
― No One Tells You This
“Don’t ever think of any person who’s trying to hurt you and harm you. Obviously, they don’t deserve your love, but you don’t deserve to feel hate because of them. Ignore them like they don’t exist, but do what you can to protect yourself.”
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“Reading kept him alive,’ she said, ‘right till the end.”
― The Gifts of Reading
― The Gifts of Reading
“The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. This is a fact well known even to Corporal Nobbs. It's also wrong. There's a fifth element, and generally it's called Surprise.”
― The Truth: Stage Adaptation
― The Truth: Stage Adaptation
“Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. That’s one of the things I try to teach my students—how to write piercingly. But what on earth’s the good of being pierced by an article about a Community Sing, or the latest improvement in scent organs? Besides, can you make words really piercing—you know, like the very hardest X-rays—when you’re writing about that sort of thing? Can you say something about nothing?”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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